Org-mode all the thingz!

org-mode

What is it?

• around since 2003
• markup language
• best supported in emacs
• system for managing plain text
• a second brain or exocortex

An aside for non emacs users

• org.vim, vim-orgmode, org-mode for Sublime Text 2 & 3, vscode-org-mode, Atom grammar for org-mode syntax
• spacemacs, doom-emacs

What is it for?

• task manager/planner
• authoring/outlining documents
• keeping notes, maintaining todo lists, planning projects

Things I do, what interests you?

Worklog/Literate *Ops

org-capture

• Capture something you need without breaking your flow

org-capture supports sub menus

templates improve speed and consistency

Example meeting template

    ;; BEGIN Capture Templates
    ;; I picked up this neat trick from the Venerable Sacha Chua
    (defvar my/org-meeting-template-planning "* %u Meeting About CFEngine Planning   %^G
CREATED: %U

*Agenda:*
 - Demos
 - Review work in progress
 - Review newly registered issues
 - [[https://tracker.mender.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=26][CFEngine Kanban board]]

** Demos
** WIP
** New Issues


" "Meeting Template - Planning")

Configuring capture templates

;; Configure custom capture templates
(setq org-capture-templates
      `(;; Note the backtick here, it's required so that the defvar based tempaltes will work!
        ;;http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/106890

        ;; I have lot's of meetings, so lets have a submenu
        ("m" "Meetings" )
        ("mp" "Meeting - Planning/Review" entry (file "~/org/Work/northern.tech/development-meetings.org" )
         ,my/org-meeting-template-planning :clock-in t :clock-resume t :append t :empty-lines-after 1)
        ))

Time Tracking

• org-clock-in, org-clock-out, org-clock-goto, org-clock-report, org-clock-resolve-clocks

Clocking in and out of tasks

Clock Reports

Jira

• ox-jira, org-jira

Screenshot/Cast

org-download

org-download-screenshot, drag and drop,

camcorder

start and stop screen recording, convert to gif

Notes

Deft

• For one file per note organization (kind of like Evernote)

Code blocks

CFEngine

#+NAME:CFEngine-hello-world
#+BEGIN_SRC cfengine3 :include-stdlib t :log-level info :exports both :run-with-main t
  reports: 'CFEngine says "Hello, World!"'; 
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS: CFEngine-hello-world
: R: CFEngine says "Hello, World!"

Python

#+BEGIN_SRC python :results output
  print("Python says \"Hello, World!\"") 
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: Python says "Hello, World!"

Shell

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output
  echo "$SHELL says \"Hello, World!\"" 
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: /usr/bin/zsh says "Hello, World!"

Reusing results

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output :var INPUT=CFEngine-hello-world
  echo "$INPUT" 
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: R: CFEngine says "Hello, World!"
: 

Remote execution

#+CAPTION: SQL in org-mode SRC block
#+BEGIN_SRC sql :exports both :dir /ssh:user@remote: :engine postgresql :database cfdb
  SELECT firstreporttimestamp from __hosts limit 1
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
| firstreporttimestamp         |
|------------------------------|
| 2019-02-15 19:49:57.74915+00 |

Diagrams

PlantUML Source

Exporting

HTML Theme Readtheorg

HTML Theme BigBlow

PDF

Email

• mu4e, notmuch, org-mime

mu4e

Keeping Secrets

• Tag entries with crypt to automatically encrypt sections of a file with GPG
• org-decrypt-entry

For my eyes only

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Blogging

• ox-hugo, easy-hugo, org2blog (WordPress), many options
• hugo supports org syntax naively, so I just use that.

Journaling

org-journal

Stored one file per day

ls ~/org/journal | grep -P "2019-0[345]" | head -n 5

org-datetree, org-reverse-datetree

• Many entries in one file

Presentations

• org-re-reveal, ox-reveal, ox-spectacle, org-treeslide, org-S5, epresent, org-beamer

Tables/Spreadsheets

• Each formula is separated with ::
• @ indicates the ROW (@> means last row)
• $ indicates the COLUMN

Live action

Referencing cells by name

• ^ indicates field values on this line define names for the field ABOVE this row

Task Management/Calendaring

Keep agenda top of mind

• idle-org-agenda

Going Mobile

Orgzly